Snappshot in time

This photo shows George Schoser and his wife Catherine with their children Pauline, Jacob and William 'Bill'. It was taken in about 1916 in Meade, South Dakota where the family lived at the time. In total, George and Catherine had eight children. Five of them however died at a young age including Pauline and Jacob on the picture. In contrast, William was almost 90 when he died. 

The inspector

Is there the perfect crime with burglars leaving no traces and the police having no chance of catching the culprits? 

Frank Schoser would certainly deny this. He works for the Criminal Investigation Department of the city of Tübingen. It is his very task to make visible and analyse any traces burglars have left on the scene of the crime whether finger or shoe prints, broken glass or traces of tools used to break open windows or doors.

Frank is member of a team of in total 16 inspectors dealing with about 4,600 incursions per year (see Südwest Presse). They use traditional detection techniques as well as special lighting methods or electrostatic charging to uncover the identity of the burglars. However, cleaning ladies are said to dread the inspectors even more as they are able to make visible every grain of dust...